Radio Cachimbona

A podcast of critical and timely analysis

A podcast by one Salvi-Taurean Cachimbona growing, healing, and storytelling in Southern Arizona. Radio Cachimbona follows Yvette as she navigates representing detained immigrants in their deportation proceedings in Southern Arizona. She storytells the fierce, ongoing migrant resistance occurring in these borderlands. As a first-generation professional whose parents are Salvadoran immigrants, Yvette prioritizes uplifting the voices of Central Americans.

  • 52 minutes 52 seconds
    No Son Nuevas Ideas

    Profesora Aide茅 Tassinari se suma al podcast para explicar c贸mo la idea de "miner铆a sostenible" es un discurso falso proporcionado por las compa帽铆as mineras, los efectos negativos que la miner铆a trae a ecosistemas y acceso a agua limpia, y pone en contexto hist贸rico la "fiebre de oro" del siglo 21 que ahora ha llegado a El Salvador.

    Lean m谩s sobre la ley rescindiendo la prohibici贸n contra la miner铆a en El Salvador aqui: https://www.lajornadamorelos.mx/opinion/solidaridad-con-el-salvador-firma-contra-el-intento-de-regreso-de-la-mineria-a-tajo-abierto/

    Para apoyar al podcast, sumanse al Patreon. Obtendr谩n acceso al #litreview, episodios exclusivos para los apoyadores de Patreon donde hablo con otras mujeres de color en estilo de book club: https://patreon.com/radiocachimbona?utm_medium=unknown&utm_source=join_link&utm_campaign=creatorshare_creator&utm_content=copyLink

    Sigan @radiocachimbona en Instagram, X, y Facebook para continuar la conversaci贸n

    21 January 2025, 4:58 pm
  • 52 minutes 5 seconds
    A Longstanding Tradition of Racial Violence

    Cheryl Redhorse Bennett, former assistant professor in American Indian Studies and expert on hate crimes and violence against Native Americans, joins the podcast to discuss her book "Our Fight Has Just Begun: Hate Crimes and Justice in Native America." She shares about the hate crimes in Farmington, New Mexico that informed her research, how the Navajo Nation pursues justice when the white legal system fails them, and how violence in reservation border towns dates back to initial settler colonial violence that resulted in mass deaths and displacement of indigenous people.

    To support the podcast, join the Patreon and get access to the #litreview, a bookclub for Cachimbonas: https://patreon.com/radiocachimbona?utm_medium=unknown&utm_source=join_link&utm_campaign=creatorshare_creator&utm_content=copyLink

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    13 January 2025, 1:15 pm
  • 49 minutes 49 seconds
    El Rol De Arte Y Cultura En El Trabajo Organizativo

    Pablo Alvarado, director ejecutivo de La Red De Jornalero/as, se suma al podcast para hablar sobre su historia de inmigraci贸n, la historia de la red, y el rol de arte y cultura en el trabajo organizativo.

    Puedan apoyar el podcast y recibir acceso al #litreview, un club de libros para Cachimbonas, en el Patreon: https://patreon.com/radiocachimbona?utm_medium=unknown&utm_source=join_link&utm_campaign=creatorshare_creator&utm_content=copyLink

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    Sigan La Red De Jornalero/as en Instagram @daylaborernetwork y Radio Jornalera @radiojornalera

    6 January 2025, 3:39 pm
  • 34 minutes 13 seconds
    How Schools Make Race

    Laura Ch谩vez-Moreno, award-winning researcher, qualitative social scientist, and assistant professor at the University of California, Los Angeles, in the Departments of Chicana/o and Central American Studies and Education, joins the podcast to discuss her new book How Schools Make Race: Teaching Latinx Racialization in America. Laura explains why she utilizes the term "Latinx," breaks down how racialized groups are created in educational settings, and shares insights into the process of racialization in bilingual education programs.

    To support the podcast and gain access to the #litreview, a book club for Cachimbonas, become a patron at: https://patreon.com/radiocachimbona?utm_medium=unknown&utm_source=join_link&utm_campaign=creatorshare_creator&utm_content=copyLink

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    30 December 2024, 5:46 pm
  • 37 minutes 19 seconds
    Era Una Prisi贸n Antes

    Jose Ruben, activista espiritual con El Movimiento de Integridad Humana, viene al podcast para discutir sus experiencias de detenci贸n en Mesa Verde y el Golden State Annex y porque se sum贸 a las huelgas de hambre y labor con otra gente detenida. Jose comparte como COVID-19 se desarroll贸 en los centros de detenci贸n, como ICE los forz贸 a trabajar para mantener los centros limpios, y detalla las condiciones terribles que inspiraron las huelgas de hambre y labor.

    Para aprender m谩s sobre las huelgas de hambre y labor, visite: www.ccijustice.org

    Para apoyar a Radio Cachimbona, suscribase al Patreon y recibir谩 acceso al #litreview-- un club de libros para Cachimbonas: https://patreon.com/radiocachimbona?utm_medium=unknown&utm_source=join_link&utm_campaign=creatorshare_creator&utm_content=copyLink

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    18 November 2024, 11:02 pm
  • 35 minutes 41 seconds
    Standing Up To Our Oppressors

    Gustavo, a Salvadoran-American organizer and leader of the hunger and labor strikes occurring in the Mesa Verde and Golden State Annex immigration detention facilities since 2022, joins the podcast to discuss the terrible conditions that led to these efforts. Gustavo shares the myriad ways ICE regularly violates its own detention standards, what gives him hope while detained, and what the strikers are demanding: that ICE terminate its contract with GSA and Mesa Verde.

    To learn more about the hunger and labor strikes and how to support the immigrants engaging in them: www.ccijustice.org

    To support the podcast, become a patron at: https://patreon.com/radiocachimbona?utm_medium=unknown&utm_source=join_link&utm_campaign=creatorshare_creator&utm_content=copyLink

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    11 November 2024, 10:35 pm
  • 31 minutes 12 seconds
    Dismantling Carceral Debt and Building Debtor Power

    Tiera Rainey, Executive Director of the Tucson Bail Fund, joins Yvette Borja to discuss a resource document that the Bail Fund co-authored with the Milwaukee Freedom Fund, Community Justice Exchange, Free Hearts, and Montgomery Bail Out: Dismantling Carceral Debt: A Manifesto on Building Debtor Power. Rainey breaks down the devastating impact of carceral debt on formerly incarcerated people, shares how stigma and shame around debt and criminalization makes it difficult to organize around carceral debt, and explains how carceral debt funds critical government services.

    To support the podcast, become a Patreon monthly subscriber for as little as $3 a month: https://patreon.com/radiocachimbona?utm_medium=unknown&utm_source=join_link&utm_campaign=creatorshare_creator&utm_content=copyLink You'll get access to the #litreview, a bookclub for Cachimbonas

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    Read the Bail Fund's Manifesto here: https://www.communityjusticeexchange.org/en/resources-all/dismantling-carceral-debt-a-manifesto-on-building-debtor-power#:~:text=The%20resource%20covers%20six%20critical,and%20rejecting%20techno%2Dsolutionist%20reforms.

    4 November 2024, 8:44 pm
  • 1 hour 7 minutes
    Don't Sell The Land

    Brea Baker, freedom fighter and author, joins the podcast to discuss her new book "Rooted: The American Legacy of Land Theft and the Modern Movement For Black Land Ownership." Yvette and Brea discuss how the U.S. arrived at a place where only 1% of rural land is owned by Black people, how Brea and her family's legacy of land ownership inspired the writing of the book, and how heirs' laws have disproportionately impacted Black land owners.

    To support the podcast, become a patron at: https://patreon.com/radiocachimbona?utm_medium=unknown&utm_source=join_link&utm_campaign=creatorshare_creator&utm_content=copyLink

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    Follow Brea on Instagram at @freckledwhileblack

    28 October 2024, 10:57 pm
  • 1 hour 1 minute
    Unaccompanied and Coming of Age

    Yvette Borja interviews Stephanie Canizales, professor and Faculty Director of the UC Berkeley Interdisciplinary Migration Initiative, about her new book Sin Padres, Ni Papeles: Unaccompanied Migrant Youth Coming of Age in the United States. They discuss who is left out of the DACA/Dreamer narrative and the socioeconomic obstacles this population faces; Canizales breaks down the limits of integration sociological frameworks for understanding unaccompanied migrant youth and explains how migrant youth reject the limited narratives of marginalization and criminalization that are foisted onto them.

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    22 October 2024, 10:22 pm
  • 1 hour 27 minutes
    That Little Courtroom in Sensuntepeque

    Yvette Borja and Jorge Cu茅llar discuss their experience as international observers for the Santa Marta 5 trial. They break down the audacity and offensive nature of a unit dedicated to prosecuting war crimes bringing the Santa Marta case forward as its inaugural effort, share their impressions of the deep power of the organized pueblo in Santa Marta, and explain the stark differences between the Attorney General's narrative of the alleged crime and what the Santa Marta community believes is the real driver of this case: mining profits.

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    Follow @cispes_solidarity on Instagram to learn more about CISPES and the Santa Marta 5 case.

    21 October 2024, 9:00 pm
  • 48 minutes 10 seconds
    Private Violence: Latin American Women And The Struggle For Asylum

    Yvette Borja interviews Carol Cleaveland and Michele Waslin, authors of Private Violence: Latin American Women And The Struggle for Asylum. They explain why calling the gender-based violence that Mexican and Central American women are fleeing "private" is inaccurate, break down how navigating the asylum system is hardest for poor migrants, and emphasize the U.S. role in destabilizing the governments and societies that these women are running from.

    Become a patron to support the podcast and get access to the #litreview, a bookclub for Cachimbonas: https://patreon.com/radiocachimbona?utm_medium=unknown&utm_source=join_link&utm_campaign=creatorshare_creator&utm_content=copyLink

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    13 October 2024, 5:32 am
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